Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig magnews.net. NS
Answer
magnews.net. 5 NS ns-153.awsdns-19.com.
magnews.net. 5 NS ns-651.awsdns-17.net.
magnews.net. 5 NS ns-1166.awsdns-17.org.
magnews.net. 5 NS ns-1925.awsdns-48.co.uk.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0